108. ABLABB8. 283 



entering the eye ; four lower labials in contact with the anterior 

 chin-shields, -which equal or a little exceed the posterior in length. 

 Scales in 15 rows. Ventrals 178-195 ; anal divided ; subcaudals 

 60-75. Brown above, with a broad dark collar and a double series 

 of transverse dark spots on the anterior part of the body ; these 

 markings most distinct in the young ; lower parts uniform 

 yellowish. 



Total length 460 millim. ; tail 110. 



Himalayas from Simla to Darjeeling. 



a. ^ (V. 185 ; C. 63). Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 



[0.]. CType.) 



b. Yg. (V. 184 ; 0. 60). Sikkim. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit 



[C!.]. (Typeof^.ojuewV.) 



e-d. d' (V. 189; C. 74) & Darjeeling. W. T. Blauford, Esq. [P.]. 



hgT. (V. 178 ; C. 68). ' 1 L J 



e. d (V. 180; C. 71). Davieeling. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.l. 



/. d' (V. 182 ; C. 69) & Darjeeling. 



hgr. fV. 184; C. 76). 



ff. $ (V. 195 ; 0. ?). .Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



9. Ablahes baliodirus. 



Coroneha baliodeira, Bote, Isis, 1827, p. 539 ; Schleg. Phys. Serp. ii. 



p. 64, pi. ii. figs. 9 & 10 (1837) ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 60 



(1847). 

 Ablabes baliodeirus. Bum. 8f Bibr. vii. p. 313 (1854) ; Oiinth. Cat. 



p. 29 (1858), and jRept. Brit. Ind. p. 224 (1864). 

 Diadophis baliodeirus, Jan, Arch. Zool. Anat. Phys. ii. 1863, p. 263, 



and Icon. Gen. 15, pi. v. fig. 4 (1866). 

 Ablabes baliodirus, var. cinctus, Fischer, Abh. naturw, Ver. Sanib.. 



ix. 1886, p. 8, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Rostral broader than deep, just visible from above ; nasal divided ; 

 eye three fourths the length of the snout ; suture between the 

 internasals shorter than that between the prsefrontals ; frontal 

 longer than its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals ; a small loreal, as long as deep or deeper than long ; one 

 or two prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 + 2; seven upper 

 labials, third and fourth entering the eye ; .four or five lower labials 

 in contact with the anterior ohin-shields, which are as long as or 

 shorter than the posterior. Scales in 13 rows. Ventrals 118-137; 

 anal divided ; subcaudals 58-75. Brown above, usually with small 

 black-edged yellow spots, sometimes with blackish cross bands or 

 two series of large alternating black blotches on the anterior part 

 of the body, or with two light, dark- edged streaks along the body 

 and a third on the nape ; head sometimes yellowish ; lips yellowish 

 white, with the labial sutures black ; lower parts yellowish or coral- 

 red, the brown of the upper parts usually descending to the sides of 

 the ventrals, each of which may bear a black dot at the end; some- 

 times a black line along the middle of the lower surface of the tail. 



Total length 400 millim. ; tail 125. 



Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Pinang. 



